# Creating a custom jinja filter

**URL:** https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/creating-a-custom-jinja-filter/763
**Category:** Help
**Tags:** jinja
**Created:** [December 20, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/creating-a-custom-jinja-filter/763 "2019-12-20T21:16:00Z")
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#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/creating-a-custom-jinja-filter/763/3 "2020-07-22T18:06:59Z")

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Looking for exactly the same thing… want a regex\_replace for this. Looks like there was a GH issue that’s been closed for now.

> <https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/480>
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> From Haney
> Currently Jinja doesn't support (or at least I can't find support for) many set operations. So, I'm using adapter.get\_columns\_in\_table but...

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